The Silent Sex : : Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions /

The Silent Sex : : Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions / / Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg.

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Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Karpowitz, Christopher F.,
Mendelberg, Tali,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 43 line illus. 48 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Problem
  • Chapter 2. The Sources of the Gender Gap in Political Participation
  • Chapter 3. Why Women Don't Speak
  • Chapter 4. The Deliberative Justice Experiment
  • Chapter 5. Speech as a Form of Participation: Floor Time and Perceived Influence
  • Chapter 6. What Makes Women the "Silent Sex" When Their Status Is Low?
  • Chapter 7. Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice?
  • Chapter 8. Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction
  • Chapter 9. When Women Speak, Groups Listen-Sometimes: How and When Women's Voice Shapes the Group's Generosity
  • Chapter 10. Gender Inequality in School Boards
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • Index

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